Scruggs v. State

FAIR, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Ricky Scruggs pled guilty to murder. He later filed a motion for post-conviction relief, which the DeSoto County Circuit Court dismissed without an eviden-tiary hearing. Scruggs now appeals, contending the court erred in accepting his plea without a factual basis and without informing him of the elements of the crime. As we find both of these claims contradicted by the record, we affirm the circuit court’s judgment.

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¶ 2. Scruggs and two co-defendants were charged with capital murder in the killing of eighty-three-year-old Maxine Andrews during an apparent…